Show HYRUM SMITH j RAISES QUESTION Of PROHIBITION H Apostle Excoriates Senate for Its Attitude on Liquor 1 Legislation VAST CROWDS ATTEND CONFERENCE SESSIONS t ALLEGED CURE OF OP TUBERCULOSIS i LOSIS BY LAYING ON f fI I OF HANDS HANDSy i Vat Vast y crowds filled the tabernacle MOI i stand to tt doors d on at both ne of the Ute Si general conference yesterday and aM Mar er ernt eat nt in the proceedings was though with the exception of the tile aut alt i I liquor speech of Apostle Apo tle Hyrum M t c I Smith nothing developed out of th the or se ordinary II program 1 The morning session was called to or t tt I F V Smith at r t dec der by President Joseph Jo ph the opening hymn Now Kow H Let Us Rejoice in hi the Day of Salva Sa a f tion lion being rendered by the choir and l 1 the congregation followed by an have IRTO cation by First lir t Counselor Coun elor Grin Orta P Mil XU Miller let ler The morning speeches touched on d j j church matters entirely all reference j i ito to civic affairs being carefully v r Miss Mias Laurinda Poulton rendered the i it 1 soprano solo BOlo Oh Ob Shining Light Di Dl Divine DIvine vine in iii a very vet effective manner during 1 the Interim between speeches betI In the afternoon Apostle Hyrum M 1 1 Smith spoke at length on the liquor H VJ H question causing a sensation by wring using i df the word prohibition for the flint time tI during the conference in connection Uon i with the recent antiliquor movement in the state legislature l Today Holier Heber J 1 1 Grant will be heard r for the first time during the present nl I conference and it is I predicted by those M high in the councils of the church that 11 he will wilt call a spade a spade Hand and 11 1 outline the policy he be favors as to pro prohibition fit hi Sunday closing law and other hJ hl f matters connected with civic affairs L LA i iA A priesthood meeting and a meeting Sij U of the Genealogical society were wen the I Ionly only other features of the days work i 4 il purely routine e business being trans irmis transacted acted 00 Apostle smiths Smith s TalK t tApo Apostle Apo tIel Hyrum M hi Smith the tile that lint 4 i speaker at t the afternoon session said w wIn in part partI I op that white I address the eon ourn I IY TT Y j f JL Q good deal of o the spirit of the Loro i i OJ we may continue to enjoy the name of i God end and nd through It tt be instructed and ad bOssed blessed ed I have enjoyed the tile of ii the conference thus far tar I have haft re rejoiced rejoiced r m In the gathering g and also al o In the if remarks that have been made by the y various speakers kers I In the year 1829 previous to the or organization t i of 0 the church the Lord re ic repeatedly repeatedly said unto Joseph Smith and to I Ithe the elders of the church or to those who believed with Joseph Joeeph Smith that a great and an universal work was about to come among the children of man If f this statement could be repeated even from the mouth of God prior to the organ orn organization or an of the church we surely can cD re repeat repeat repeat peat it now ROW when we see flee all about us such a wonderful fulfillment of the prophecies pro As I sat t just now and looked over the vast multitude I could not help but remember the quotation How Bow great and marvelous is the work that has come among the children of men Beginning with but six members a few fW years ago comparatively the church now numbers Its members by the hun hundreds hundreds of or thousands The church it Is composed of a people who now own magnificent properties are alive with the principles of the gospel I Ilife life and salvation They have lave been drawn from all of the nations of the earth from all aU creeds factions tongues and peoples and have been carried by bythe bythe i ithe the grace Brace of God into the holy boty church of Jesus Christ ChristIn In a recent speech of one ef of our i brothers the kingdom of heaven Is Ia Ilk lik likened ened cued to a piece of leaven put pat in moss Continued en on Page 2 t I It t t 1 J 11 f i i l j Ji If J IIi IIiI IIiI IIiI IIiI IIiI ii rt H H Ja I t r 46 5 s ii iii i I I t J Ju I u I Iii Iiii I i dJ l I JOHN MARSHALL AMARSHALL A t Federal judge called upon to preside at st the trial f Governor H of 0 1 1 Oklahoma 1 i HYRUM SMITH RAISES QUESTION OF PROHIBITION Continued from Page 1 urea of meal arid add left leU until all are af affected f by b Its power The little party p of six men meon in 1830 is the leaven that is rapidly and most moat mo t wonderfully leavening the whole world work Changes are constant constantly constantI ly 13 I coming comins about In the world and the doctrines doctrIne believed in a few years ago are different now to what they were The Lord through Joseph Smith re revealed revealed revealed the truth to mankind and an it Is having its effect among amons men Advocates Prohibition After quoting the tho Biblical parable of the bondmen who complained of their treatment and were ill treated even eve more afterward Apostle Smith saW said I cannot forget that we Wl at our last lat con conference conference ference ferenee went on record as M in favor of the Ue controlling of the saloon aloon interests As A 41 a ft conference we spoke in favor of prohibition and not only the council but aU all who love Jove beauty decency and morality desired it Other churches and good men were in favor r or oL of o the movement and we spoke our asking liking that we Ae be given relief reller from the bondage of the tile saloon under which we had been tolling toiling We asked the state legislature for assistance in securing this tI relief and also asked for a Sunday Sundar law Ja and am we e were wore given a stone atone We e also asked for or absolute prohibition and I want to say MY here that th the lower house hoWe of the login legis legislature lature with a few dishonorable dl exceptions Hone stood squarely in favor of the measure Liquor was and is destroying your sons and daughters and ami injuring the beet best interests of the State Mate The TM upper house was as the Ute reverse With a few rew honorable exceptions they the would not give the people what they tilt wanted and openly said Mid that not only would they refuse to restrict the tins sa saloon loon boone but woW would give them greater li It license license cense than before We held out oat to tG the tM very Milt Met hoping to receive ov een i th Ute the stone atone which would be bf better than Own nothing but kt we f were we finally left bit with the toe assurance a that nothing be done except e to give he the saloon loon wider scope than before fore I I Relief From Contamination I As Mr tar ar as u I am concerned co ecI 1 I stand Mand for purity p t in life for every virtue f for fer r everything that will help our people to lead a better and Ami purer life and as u flu far faras as 8 I have authority to sped spek k for the church of Christ I may ma say MY we desire relief from the liquor contamination a Sabbath day de to be kept holy hol and we wede deplore de re the condition of affairs that per permits permits mits mite a public servant to openly arise and publicly cast aspersions on the church and its U motives But do not be discouraged ed We W hare have had to light fight for or everything we ever had all of our lives Just as the leaven is working In other things so 80 will wilt it be with this and we will III live lve to see the day when we can put men Jn n n nOur our legislature who ho will listen to the voice olce of the people and will Wilt free tree us from the bondage of tire the son SO none of men menTo menTo menTo To your tents oh Israel Ismel redouble your our vigilance In keeping your Tour sons eons and nd daughters from the clutches of those thole who would drag them from your our threshold in their innocence e and be besmirch smirch them with Ith the mire of the outer world orld God bless Israel and the name Dame of Jesus Je us Christ Beyond emphatic nods of or approval exchanged between the listeners there was no demonstration though when hen absolute prohibition was as mentioned by hy Apostle A Smith significant cant glances gances gla were wen cast among the sea of faces At the Morning Session The speakers speAke at the morning session were Apostle Orson F Whitney and El EI Elder EIder Elder der Serge F Baliff president of th the German and Swiss missionary stations station but recently returned to America Amar and Elder George F Richards Apostle Whitneys remarks were con eon fined to the principles of the Mormon Monnon belief bellef and Ute the relations between the therell religious rell ous and civil government and the fact that each member has bas the voting yoUnt power on all questions of policy or government He closed lila his remarks by It b saying If It God were to command in every everything ever everything thing that nt would be in n to tD a government of free men met who conscientiously consider all an and settling them according a hf to tG the right govern themselves The ancient Zion was wu but the foreshadow lag of a greater Zion yet et to come lO as foretold f in holy Iy lt writ WIlL The Zion to be bee established e will wl be a magnet to the nations but HIt it wll 11 not be until thy t tt tb great t law of 0 common consent shall have haft full fun aw l sway y Elder Serg who wh baa bu just re returned re ret turned t from froB a four fer yean stay atay in Ger Germany GerIDa Germany many IDa and Switzerland was WAIl the next nest speaker his remarks having to do with the Interests of the church in inlands for p lands particularly b Ut Ute the work werk of ot healing the tb aide sick He a U tad k of a ease which came ClUne under view in Bres tires Breslau Breslau lau Ian where a H cm eves wac wM performed by b two ml f though the tM patient was suffering from tuberculosis s in Its advanced state 8 te and ancl had hd been giver er two days more of life by b the family physician He U accepted the faith said Elder Baliff paid hie hI tithing and wm wa uM ure by the tM laying on of hands and anoInt ng HK with oiL olL He closed elo his h discourse by the parent of missionaries now in for tor foreign alga eign fields not to send their sons eons to to toe much mosey money stating that their actu expenses would be all n they would require re reo require quire Tithe Dodgers Grilled Elder F G Richards selected th nonpayment of tithing as his subject calling attention to the laxity I ty on th part pan of some members in fa a ling hug to pa their tithing until the end of the yea Ear at which time tb they are usually te to pay P the entire e tire year leaving them ir arrears to the church The Lord has raid of S S yi ur increase annually he said in inclosing inclosing 11 closing his h J address addres Take your our grain from the thresher and the thc hay from your field ekl and give gie it to the Lord Pay PHY PHYAn an honest ng ug In tn the future that you may receive l he the benefits of the church chunh and the bl ns of ot the Lord I rd Apostle tle Rudger Clawson also algo ad addres addressed dressed ed the meeting giving gLing an account of the scattered over the world in the interests of gf the church and stated that there arc are now missionaries in Sn the field In ad addition addition lie cited instances of cures curlS ot or various diseases by the Missionaries hb his own on son having performed a mir miraculous cure during the thc first few weeks of his travels abroad Statistics Introduced by b him showed i that meetings and a rI gospel com coin communication I on the subject of or Mor Mormonism monism had taken place during the year car 19 l ts S and that pieces of church literature had been sent sont out to Individuals A contralto solo Olo Forever With Ith the Lord was waR rendered by Miss Hester Davis in an able manner after Joseph W V Mc one of o the seven sevel presidents of seventies delivered ti usual historical lecture touching touch in on Ill the inception of the church its growth aims and hopes During Durin the speech of Apostle Rudger Clawson a child apparently not more than S i years of age t toddled odd led d away from her mother and made her way to the stand stopping finally beside President Smith She Sho stood silent and antI apparent apparently ly IT I for severs several moments before he be noticed her Swinging her to the th top of the lecture stand President Smith celled called for her parents parent and ion sn an usher u r was w dispatched for or the child the mother stating she had become 1 n interested that she ahe had not noted the tI t childs absence e Another stray stra chill chil was ws found about the grounds and ont to police headquarters and afterward delivered to her parents Following l an invocation by b Bishop David Smith the session adjourned until this morning at 10 A meeting at Assembly A embly hall hail of or the Gene society was held hold immediately after ACter 4 od k and routine business II concerning e the tracing of missing and ancl ancle dead e d relatives and friends friend discussed |